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Updated: May 14, 2025
"Ah! mon Colonel! that is different." "Ah! you may say so. I fear it will be difficult, indeed," soliloquised the Colonel, with a thoughtful air. "I very much doubt whether we can get it at all; but it must be had, cost what it may ay, cost what it may." "I will do my best, Colonel." "Try at every fur-store in Saint Louis, inquire among the hunters and trappers you know where to find them.
On the strength of this opinion he gathered the Indians of the neighbourhood around him, and told them that, as he wished to read to them out of the Word of the Great Manitou, he would hold a class twice a week in the fur-store; and, further, that if any of them wished to learn English, and read the Bible of the pale-faces for themselves, he was quite willing to teach them.
He understood it to be a loan, and returned it immediately with interest but surely we have said enough for an intelligent reader! Not many days after that these two were married in the fur-store of the traders. A grand feast and a great dance followed, as a matter of course.
Not that we are timid when the tiger is alive, but simply because a fur-store is more convenient than a jungle, and there is less danger of wetting our feet.
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